About

Property taxes are the lifeblood for New York City. It accounts for 44% of City revenues funding vital services like schools, libraries, safe communities, fire and child protection, and homeless services, and sanitation. It is the one tax that touches everyone’s life whether you own property, are a tenant, work in an office, shop at a local store, or pay for gas and electricity. Despite its importance, the New York City property tax structure is broken. It is patently unfair, impossible to understand, and unnecessarily complicated.

StarkPatch Legal, PLLC believes in and is committed to New York City. Through property tax litigation, we will ensure that your taxes are fair and legal. Our goal is to see to it that you understand how your taxes are determined and to make sure that the City of New York has valued your property consistent with the applicable rules, regulations, and laws so that the burden you pay to support important services is fair, equitable, and easy for you to understand.

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein

Founded in 2016, StarkPatch Legal, PLLC represents property owners who did not receive adequate relief at the Tax Commission administrative level and who want to preserve their rights to get a second bite at the apple or who want to pursue a challenge in New York State Supreme Court. We will file the necessary paperwork to ensure that your claim for tax relief is preserved each year which can often provide the necessary leverage you will need to see to it that your taxes are as fair as they can be.